Visualize the first time in history a cabinet nominee's confirmation ended in a tie.
If passed, this treaty would have given Cuba to the United States. The Senate rejected it 53-30.
Most strikingly, this bill made it a felony to be in the United States illegally.
In 1949, U.S. Senator Hubert Humphrey called for the abolition of the filibuster in order to advance civil rights bills; as Senate Majority Whip, he advanced civil rights bills; as a Senator in 1975, he voted to lower the threshold to break a filibuster from 67 votes to 60.
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